TEMECULA  The Linfield Christian boys basketball team fires at will from the perimeter like few others.

And when the Lions shoot like they did Tuesday night, few teams can look as impressive.

Linfield continued its hot start to the league season by sinking 12 3-pointers and running away from visiting Calvary Murrieta, 75-41, on Tuesday night.

The win solidified the Lions’ early grip on the Ambassador League, as they improved to 5-0 in league (10-7 overall), two games ahead of Woodcrest Christian and Ontario Christian.

Tuesday night showed how impressive the Lions’ shooters can be. Of their dozen 3-pointers, 10 came in the middle two quarters, when Linfield shot 70 percent (21-for-30) from the field while turning a one-point, first-quarter lead into a 62-33 rout by the end of the third quarter.

That was in stark contrast to their last game, when they shot 4-for-24 on 3-pointers in a loss to Escondido Calvin Christian in the title game of the Caged Classic on Dec. 29.

“It’s good and bad for us,” Lions coach Shawn Stroud said. “The live-by-the-3, die-by-the-3 thing is tough. The difference tonight in the second quarter is we would drive into the key, then kick it out to get a good shot.”

The Lions were, not surprisingly, a confident bunch during this game between the Valley’s two most prominent private schools and league rivals.

“Pretty much,” Morris said. “I feel like if we can shoot like that, we can beat pretty much any team out there.

“Within reason,” he carefully added. “Probably not an NBA team.”

Two years removed from a winless season, Calvary Murrieta (5-6, 1-4) endured another growing pain as it continues to show marked improvement in its second season under coach Brian Wethers, the former Murrieta Valley standout who later starred at Cal.